Chris Terrill, despite being 73 years old, is quite an athlete. He has completed more than 50 marathons, and was registered for last year's Brighton Marathon in his native England. But then Terrill suffered an injury and got a hip replacement. Since he was already registered to run and raise money for wounded veterans, he decided to run the marathon anyway, on crutches. Terrill completed that marathon in six hours, 11 minutes and 11 seconds. That's quite an accomplishment, especially since he was on crutches. When people mentioned his feat may be a world record, he was astonished.
"If I'd known there was a record to be beaten, I'd have gone faster," he said.
Terrill had even stopped to take selfies with his fans along the way! Since it wasn't an official attempt, the Guinness officials had to verify Terrill's feat by the race records, which took a year. Read about this iron man and his record at BBC. -via Metafilter
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